The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Group portrait of the Victorian RAN survivors of the sinking of the corvette HMAS Wallaroo off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilomentres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia, on the night of the 10/11 June 1943, when the Wallaroo was rammed by the US Liberty ship, Henry Gilbert Costin killing two of the corvette's crewmen and wounding her captain. A third crewman, PM2278 Able Seaman (AB) John Joseph Clarke, was lost overboard and presumed dead. Those killed in the collision were H1875 AB Daris Leo Bernard Cowen and 2551 Motor Mechanic George William Garratty. Identified from left to right: unknown; 25845 Able Seaman (AB) Peter Sutherland; 23872 Leading Seaman Albert Leslie Charles; 25844 AB Edward Clitheroe; 578 Stoker Petty Officer Leo Emmett O'Shea.
Group portrait of interstate members of the RAN, survivors of the HMAS Wallaroo which was sunk off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilometres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia. On the night
Bathurst class minesweeper/corvette HMAS Wallaroo. Commissioned on 15th July 1942 Wallaroo carried out anti-submarine patrols, escort duties and minesweeping off the south and west Australian coasts.
Portrait of Midshipman Brian Harold Page, Royal Australian Navy, from Roseville, NSW showing some of his scars which resulted from a collision sixty miles (96 kilometres) west of Fremantle between his
Informal portrait of two RAN Petty Officers, H Rodject and S368 Albert Hall Rowland from Woolahra, NSW who got out emergency torches when HMAS Wallaroo, Australian built corvette collided with a merch
Starboard side view of the corvette HMAS Wallaroo. She is armed with a 4 inch BL Mark IX gun on a CP I mounting forward and three single 20mm Oerlikon AA (anti aircraft) guns in the bridge wings and a
Informal portrait of 49 year old 8522 Able Seaman (AB) Leonard Richards, who has been 37 years in the navy, was one of the survivors from the sinking corvette HMAS Wallaroo, following a collision with
